An essay on the sublime & beautiful [graphic] ; The maiden speech.

Published/Created:

[London]
[T. Cornell]
[1 October 1785]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 24 x 35 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, nos. 6863-4
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 165

Notes:

Title from text etched below each image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement; publication information from Grego.
Two images on one plate, each individually titled below.
Suckling; November 1958; Acquisitions nos.: 958-11-2-30, 958-11-2-31.
Watermark: fleur-de-lis.

Abstract:

"[Left image] One of two designs on the same plate, see BMSat 6864. A cobbler (left) preaches in a bare, raftered room with a casement window. He stands behind a reading-desk on which is a large, open book, leaning forward, pointing, gesticulating, and shouting. The heads of his congregation, old men and women, are below and on the right. The title is from Burke's book, 'A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful' (1756). [Right image] A companion design to BMSat 6863 on the same plate. A scene in the House of Commons showing the corner of the clerks' table (left), the benches on the right crowded with members, and part of the gallery above, with two persons looking over. The new member stands, knees bent, hat in his left hand, right hand extended; his attitude and expression convey the impression of a halting and embarrassed speech. He is in full dress, with sword and bag-wig. The members listen with expressions of contemptuous amusement or boredom."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Essay on the sublime and beautiful
The maiden speech.

Associated Names:

Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827 [Printmaker]
Cornell, Thos., active 1780-1792 [Publisher]

Topics:

Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
Casement windows
Desks
Public speaking
Shoemakers

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1785
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1785

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

785.10.01.01+

Orbis Record:

7697766

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr05817

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10728023

PID:

digcoll:552284